'STD/LTD/Fatal Claims' and 'STD/LTD/Fatal Costs' (a subset of Claim Costs Paid) are not based on the same set of claims. The STD/LTD/Fatal Claim count only includes claims that have received a first-payment for STD, LTD, or Fatal benefits in the summary period, while the STD/LTD/Fatal Cost amount can include costs that are paid in the summary period for STD, LTD, or Fatal claims that have a first-payment prior to the period.

The STD/LTD/Fatal Costs are a subset of the Claim Costs Paid amount. As Health-Care-Only (HCO) claims are not coded with claim characteristics, they are not included in the above amounts by claim characteristic.

The Total includes all claims, but only the top-10 categories are shown; the sum for the top 10 categories may not match the Total.

Claim Cost Paid

Accident Type

($ 000)

Percent

Fall from elevation

215,664

24.4%

Struck by

144,294

16.3%

Overexertion

139,585

15.8%

MVIs

80,622

9.1%

Fall on same level

74,886

8.5%

Other bodily motion

44,085

5.0%

Struck against

41,584

4.7%

Caught in

38,091

4.3%

Repetitive motion

21,564

2.4%

Unknown mapped code

19,712

2.2%

Others

46,344

5.2%

Total STD/LTD/Fatal Costs

866,431

97.9%

Total Other Costs

18,780

2.1%

TOTAL

885,211

100.0%

Source of Injury

($ 000)

Percent

Working surfaces

251,012

28.4%

Vehicles

118,686

13.4%

Machines

70,140

7.9%

Bodily motion

68,469

7.7%

Metal items

50,926

5.8%

Boxes, containers

38,135

4.3%

Hand tools

29,565

3.3%

Miscellaneous

28,452

3.2%

Trees, plants

26,027

2.9%

Buildings & structures

24,683

2.8%

Others

160,336

18.1%

Total STD/LTD/Fatal Costs

866,431

97.9%

Total other costs

18,780

2.1%

TOTAL

885,211

100%

Nature of Injury

($ 000)

Percent

Fractures

279,043

31.5%

Other strains

193,528

21.9%

Back strain

94,023

10.6%

Laceration

50,092

5.7%

Concussion

37,306

4.2%

Contusion

35,805

4.0%

Amputation

31,573

3.6%

Multiple injuries

25,912

2.9%

Unknown mapped code

19,681

2.2%

Tendinitis, Tenosynovitis

17,016

1.9%

Others

82,451

9.3%

Total STD/LTD/Fatal Costs

866,431

97.9%

Total Other Costs

18,780

2.1%

TOTAL

885,211

100.0%

Body Part

($ 000)

Percent

Wrist, fingers & hand

143,832

16.2%

Other

123,048

13.9%

Back

114,277

12.9%

Shoulders

77,139

8.7%

Ankle, toe & feet

70,731

8.0%

Knee

60,358

6.8%

Other lower extremity

45,194

5.1%

Other head

38,024

4.3%

Other upper extremity

33,625

3.8%

Hips

21,900

2.5%

Others

138,303

15.6%

Total STD/LTD/Fatal Costs

866,431

97.9%

Total Other Costs

18,780

2.1%

TOTAL

885,211

100.0%

Occupation

($ 000)

Percent

Transport truck drivers

98,003

11.1%

Carpenters

69,214

7.8%

Construction trades helpers and labourers

63,355

7.2%

Not applicable

27,793

3.1%

Chain saw and skidder operators

21,695

2.5%

Material handlers

18,919

2.1%

Roofers and shinglers

18,608

2.1%

Residential and commercial installers and servicers

16,108

1.8%

Heavy equipment operators (except crane)

15,676

1.8%

Painters & decorators (except interior decorators)

15,663

1.8%

Others

501,396

56.6%

Total STD/LTD/Fatal Costs

866,431

97.9%

Total Other Costs

18,780

2.1%

TOTAL

885,211

100.0%

Age Range

Female

Male

Unknown

Total

Age %

0 to 14

7

392

0

398

0.0%

15 to 24

11,107

69,521

73

80,702

9.1%

25 to 34

17,942

164,823

72

182,837

20.7%

35 to 44

26,445

218,027

115

244,588

27.6%

45 to 54

30,470

202,777

74

233,321

26.4%

55 to 64

13,706

93,825

116

107,647

12.2%

65+

1,665

15,065

0

16,729

1.9%

Unknown Age

2

6

199

208

0.0%

Total STD/LTD/Fatal Costs

101,345

764,436

650

866,431

97.9%

Total Other Costs

18,780

2.1%

Total

885,211

100.0%

Gender %

100.0%

Notes:

'STD/LTD/Fatal Claims' and 'STD/LTD/Fatal Costs' (a subset of Claim Costs Paid) are not based on the same set of claims. The STD/LTD/Fatal Claim count only includes claims that have received a first-payment for STD, LTD, or Fatal benefits in the summary period, while the STD/LTD/Fatal Cost amount can include costs that are paid in the summary period for STD, LTD, or Fatal claims that have a first-payment prior to the period.

The STD/LTD/Fatal costs are a subset of the Claim Costs paid amount. As Health-Care-Only (HCO) claims are not coded with claim characteristics, they are not included in the above amounts by claim characteristic.

The Total includes all costs paid, but only the top-10 categories are shown; the sum for the top 10 categories may not match the Total.

Additional Notes:

The statistics in this report are based on current information, and so historical data is subject to change.

Claim costs paid may continue to accrue in the years following an Employer-Classification Units (CU) becoming inactive.

For some Classification Units, measures such as Person Years and Claim Counts may not be perfectly aligned. Historical Person Years for some Employer-Classification Units are remapped based on the current information about the CU that the employer should have been registered in.

If no data is available for a measure then a blank is displayed.

The Classification Profile report includes claims that are counted for dummy employers. These employers are set up to account for certain claim costs. They are not required to have an active registration and do not relate to a registered (real) employer.

The claim characteristics page is not shown if there are fewer than 25 STD/LTD/Fatal claims in the five year summary period.

Definitions

# Non-HCO Claims: The number of claims with costs related to at least one of the following benefits types: short-term disability benefits (STD), long-term disability benefits (LTD), or survivor (Fatal) benefits and where the first STD/LTD/Fatal payment date is within the year of injury or the three months following the year of injury.

# Person Years: The estimated number of persons working all year on either a part-time or full-time basis. Estimates of person year quantities are based on gross payrolls
submitted by employers and on matching wage-rate data. (Note: Person Years is not available for some Fishing CUs.)

Injury Rate: The number of non-health care only claims per one hundred person-years of covered employment, where one hundred person-years is the equivalent of one hundred
full-time & part-time employees working in the year.

6-Month Truncated Duration: The average number of STD days paid within the month of injury or the six months following the month of injury per STD claim. The average will only include claims that have had a full six months after the month of injury to develop.

Total Work Days Lost: The total number of short-term disability (STD) work days paid in the year regardless of the year of injury. (Days arising from rehabilitation payments are excluded.)

Claim Cost Paid: The sum of all health-care (HC) payments, short term disability (STD) payments, vocational rehabilitation (VR) payments, long-term disability (LTD) reserves and one-time cash awards, and survivor benefit reserves and one-time cash awards charged in the year, regardless of the year of injury.

# STD/LTD/Fatal Claims: The number of claims with costs related to at least one of the following benefits types: short-term disability benefits (STD), long-term disability benefits (LTD), or survivor benefits (Fatal) and where the first STD/LTD/Fatal payment date is within the year.

# Young Worker Claims: The number of STD/LTD/Fatal Claims where the worker is aged between 15 and 24 at the time of injury.

# Mature Worker Claims: The number of STD/LTD/Fatal Claims where the worker is aged 55 or older at the time of injury.

# Ergonomic (MSI) Claims: The number of STD or LTD Claims where the Accident Type is Overexertion or Repetitive Motion. Ergonomic Claims do not include fatalities, and may
be referred to as Musculoskeletal Injury (MSI) claims.

# Serious Injury Claims: The number of claims with a first Short Term Disability (STD), Long Term Disability (LTD), or Fatal payment in the month of injury or the three months following the month of injury AND where at least one of the following is met: (a) long duration (wage-loss in the period of 28 or more days); (b) high health-care costs (costs in the period equivalent to 28 or more days of wage-loss); (c) fatality (fatal benefit payment in the period); (d) serious medical diagnosis (one of 275 selected ICD9 codes).

% Serious Injury Claims: The percentage of STD, LTD, and Fatal claims that are considered to be a Serious Injury. Calculated as the number of Serious Injury Claims divided by
the number of Non-Health Care Only claims first-paid in the month of injury or in the following three months.

Serious Injury Rate: The number of Serious Injury Claims per one hundred person-years of covered employment, where one hundred person-years is the equivalent of one
hundred full-time & part-time employees working in the year.

# First-Paid LTD claims: The number of claims with long-term disability costs (LTD reserve or a cash award) where the first LTD payment date is within the year. Claims may have payments under other benefit types.

# First-Paid Fatal claims: The number of claims with fatality costs (survivor reserve or a cash award) where the first Fatal payment date is within the year. Claims may have
payments under other benefit types.

# Employer-CUs: A count of the number of employers with Person Years greater than zero in the given year. A multi-classification employer will be counted for each of the CUs
that are included in the report selection criteria.

Assessable Payroll: The amount of payroll used in computing an employer's assessment amount in a given classification unit (CU), summed for all Employer-CUs in the report
selection criteria.

Assessment Amount: The amount of assessment an employer will pay as a result of being assessed at the Net Rate (i.e. with consideration of the experience rating and/or
transitioning), summed for all Employer-CUs in the report selection criteria.

Inspection Reports: The number of documents that record Safety and Health Inspections and related activities. A Safety and Health Inspection usually involves a visit by a
Prevention Officer to a jobsite to assess compliance with the regulations and to observe procedures and conditions at the site, or to communicate assessed non-compliance to the
employer.

Other Contacts: The number of Employer-Operating Location-CUs receiving an Education Presentation, Employer Contact, Accident Investigation, or Program Review conducted
by an authorized WorkSafeBC employee.

Initiating Orders: The number of new corrective orders issued to an employer as a result of conducting an inspection.

Follow-up Orders: The number of corrective orders issued as a result of a follow-up to determine compliance.

Warning Letters Sent: The number of warning letters issued to an employer due to workers being exposed to a serious hazard or previous non-compliance.

Penalties Imposed: The number of additional assessments applied against an employer due to workers being exposed to a serious hazard or previous non-compliance.

Accident Type: The accident or exposure that describes the manner in which the injury or disease was produced or inflicted by the identified source of injury or disease. (Mapped coding level)

Nature of Injury: The injury or illness in terms of its principal physical characteristics. (Mapped coding level)

Body Part: The body part or bodily system, directly affected by an injury or disease identified in the nature of injury classification. (Mapped coding level)

Occupation: The collection of jobs, sufficiently similar in work performed to be grouped under a common title for classification purposes. (Statistics Canada's NOC unit group level.)

Age Range: The injured worker's age group as of the claim date.

Employer Size: The Employer-CU size is determined using the number of person years for each given Employer-CU within each summary year (e.g. as of the year of injury for a
claim, as of the year issued for most Prevention documents, or as of the assessment year for payroll). If person years is not available in the given year, the size is considered
unknown. The different employer sizes are: Small: up to 20 person years; Medium: 20 or more, but fewer than 100 person years; and Large: 100 or more person years.